Sonic Youth Gossip

Sonic Youth Gossip (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/index.php)
-   Non-Sonic Sounds (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/forumdisplay.php?f=4)
-   -   Bad Genre Names (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=7068)

Everyneurotic 10.17.2006 04:09 PM

most subgenre names suck; chief among them "melodic death metal"

one of my favorites is grindcore though, it's perfect.

Savage Clone 10.17.2006 04:10 PM

The Replacements' music has aged terribly.

Everyneurotic 10.17.2006 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Savage Clone
Cowpunk refers to bands like Uncle Tupelo, aka The Trend That Minneapolis Will Never Allow To Just Fucking Die Already.


cowpunk is sort of like the plugz and tex and the horseheads and the screaming sirens. uncle tupelo was "alt. country"; remember, it was the 90's and everything with "alt." on the name sold.

Cantankerous 10.17.2006 04:12 PM

deathcountry
taqwacore

LittlePuppetBoy 10.17.2006 04:14 PM

hehe...PSYCHOBILLY

Cantankerous 10.17.2006 04:14 PM

gothabilly

LittlePuppetBoy 10.17.2006 04:15 PM

Horror Rock

Savage Clone 10.17.2006 04:15 PM

I like Psychobilly as a name. It fits that kind of band quite well, especially as those kinds of bands usually have no problem with pigeonholing under that umbrella term and are not too hung up on "originality."

Glice 10.17.2006 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Savage Clone
Happy Hardcore


Hey hey, less dissing of the happy hardcore thanks. What do you want from a genre name? Should it not describe the music perfectly?

I think glitchcore, lo-fi and the oft forgotten no-fi were pretty awful names. There was a period when journos would break their asses trying to find another word to put -fi after.

Crunk is a stupid name. Grime is a great one. Funny how these things work out.

Glice 10.17.2006 04:16 PM

Psychobilly makes perfect sense to me also.

Savage Clone 10.17.2006 04:17 PM

Glitchcore is a terrible name indeed.

Perhaps it is my laothing of Happy Hardcore that does it in for me. It seems like the two words should be mutually exclusive. It's unnatural.

Cantankerous 10.17.2006 04:17 PM

oh, excuse me... how could i have forgotten?

riot grrrl

Everyneurotic 10.17.2006 04:18 PM

grime is a far better name than most people associated with it.

i like 'glitch' as a description of the music (glitchcore is too much though)

Cantankerous 10.17.2006 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cantankerous
oh, excuse me... how could i have forgotten?

riot grrrl

quoted for posterity.

Glice 10.17.2006 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Savage Clone
Glitchcore is a terrible name indeed.

Perhaps it is my laothing of Happy Hardcore that does it in for me. It seems like the two words should be mutually exclusive. It's unnatural.


You don't like Happy Hardcore? I don't believe someone with a record collection as absurdly presented as yours does not have at least one slightly worn out semi-bootleg Happy Hardcore tape somewhere. What's not to like? It's silly, it makes you bounce.

Kids these days, I don't know...

Savage Clone 10.17.2006 04:21 PM

Riot Grrrl isn't a mere music genre, maan. It's a fucking MOVEMENT!



ahem.

Savage Clone 10.17.2006 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glice
You don't like Happy Hardcore? I don't believe someone with a record collection as absurdly presented as yours does not have at least one slightly worn out semi-bootleg Happy Hardcore tape somewhere. What's not to like? It's silly, it makes you bounce.

Kids these days, I don't know...



My interest in all things techno 12" in nature waned severely by 1994.

Cantankerous 10.17.2006 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Savage Clone
Riot Grrrl isn't a mere music genre, maan. It's a fucking MOVEMENT!



ahem.

it's a bunch of cunts with the money for instruments is what it is.

Glice 10.17.2006 04:23 PM

Happy Hardcore was the second-last great tape-governed genre. Bhangra was the last, and that seems to have made the transition onto CD now.

soapbars 10.17.2006 06:18 PM

gaba > happy hardcore


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:06 PM.

Powered by vBulletin Version 3.5.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
All content ©2006 Sonic Youth